November 16

November 16, 1828 – Greek War of Independence: The London Protocol entailed the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades.

November 17

1920 – Following the death of her grandson, Queen Olga became regent of Greece, until the return of her son. Incidentally, she is the grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II of England.

1973 – Student uprising at the Athens Polytechnic, against the Junta. A total of 24 students and civilians are killed.

November 18

1916 – The “November events.” Royal paramilitary units, named the “League of Reservists”, target the Venizelists. Armed confrontation between Greek reservists and French marines. The Allies instituted a naval blockade on Greece. French and British forces landed in Thessaly and enter the regional capital of Larissa.

November 19

2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige split in half and sunk off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

November 25

1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrived in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.

1940 – The Gorgopotamos bridge was blown up in a common operation between the Greek militants and British saboteurs (Operation Harling). This successful operation disrupted the German transportation of ammunition via Greece to the Nazi Africa Corps under Rommel.

1957 – Prince George of Greece and Denmark, passed away. (b. 1869)

1973 – George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners’ coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis. Military law was reinstated.

November 27

1919 – Treaty of Neuilly was signed, following the Greco-Turkish War. Greece acquired Western Thrace.

1922 – According to the verdict of the Trial of the Six, the former Prime Minister Dimitrios Gounaris, the Commander-in-Chief of the Greek Armies Georgios Hatzianestis and four other high ranked politicians were executed as responsible for the Asia Minor Catastrophe.